[ecoop-info] CFP: Operating System support for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures

[Peter Dickman]

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          2nd CALL FOR PAPERS / POSTERS / PARTICIPATION
                  OSHMA workshop at PACT'07

Operating System support for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures
       http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pd/Workshops/OSHMA1-PACT2007/

           at the 16th International Conference on 
      Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
              Brasov, Romania, September 15, 2007 
                      http://pactconf.org
    PACT Sponsors are: IEEE Computer Society/ACM SIGARCH/IFIP
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Mainstream commodity CPUs are increasingly being developed as multicore 
architectures. Current trends make it clear that future mainstream devices 
will have substantially increased internal parallelism due to the many-core
 and hyperthreading technologies now being employed. While many multicore 
designs are homogeneous, consisting of multiple identical CPU cores, an 
increasing number of architectures are exploiting different degrees of 
heterogeneity, using cores specialised for specific activities. Originally 
targeted at specialised applications, such as network processing or console 
gaming, these heterogeneous multicore architectures are gaining increasing 
traction in general purpose computing. Examples range from having multiple 
variants of the x86 architecture on a single chip, to truly heterogeneous 
platforms combining components that use different instruction sets and a 
plethora of memories. A key element of the heterogeneous multicore "puzzle" 
is how Operating Systems can exploit and support these challenging 
architectures, particularly as they move away from specialist applications 
into general usage.

The OSHMA workshop at PACT'07 will bring together researchers from the OS, 
hardware and language communities to address the issues raised for operating 
systems by heterogeneous multicore architectures.

The deadline has now passed for long papers, however
the workshop organisers are still accepting:
   * one page poster abstracts
   * position papers (2 pages)
   * short technical papers (4-6 pages)
   * short industrial experience reports (4-6 pages)

Submissions can cover any related topic, including but not limited to:
   * OS decomposition for deployment on highly parallel heterogeneous 
     multicore platforms
   * effective resource management in current/future multicore architectures
   * memory management in heterogeneous multicores
   * resource and code fragment scheduling in heterogeneous multicores
   * implications for OS builders, language designers and compiler 
     writers of single address space operating systems on complex 
     multicores without MMUs
   * OS exploitation of type-safety and static verification of concurrent 
     communication and/or data sharing between cores

Submissions, in .pdf format, should be sent as email attachments to:
     oshma-pact-workshop at mailhost.dcs.gla.ac.uk
Submission deadline for position papers, poster abstracts, 
and experience reports is:
     Friday 17th August, 2007  (and no, we aren't fussy about time-zones)
The final structure of the workshop will be announced before the early
registration deadline for PACT'07, which is August 23rd.

For more details see:
    http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pd/Workshops/OSHMA1-PACT2007/

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